B.1 Rights and Privileges on Scanned Storage

Micro Focus File Reporter must have the proper rights set on each network volume or share that it scans. In addition, certain privileges must be granted to File Reporter on the machine hosting the Engine and on each server where storage is managed.

B.1.1 Granting Rights

Every Windows network share to be scanned by File Reporter must have proper rights assigned to the File Reporter proxy rights group.

  1. As an Active Directory domain administrator, authenticate to the server where the storage is located.

  2. Grant Read Only sharing privileges to the proxy rights group for each share that File Reporter will scan.